AHolding wallet
Ask Tether to freeze it
Tether can freeze USDT in a wallet on a request from law enforcement, made through Tether’s own process. Hound does not file it for you.
For investigators
A freeze-ready trace for a crypto fraud case,
without an analyst or a license.
For detectives, prosecutors, victim lawyers and bank fraud teams. Start from the victim’s USDT transfers on Ethereum or Tron; get back every wallet the money reached, which ones still hold it, and who can freeze it.
2chains: Ethereum, Tron
USDTERC-20 and TRC-20
0DOJ cases, tested blind
0/32seized wallets named as top leads
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What you get
One report per case, written from the trace. A copy for the detective with every table, and a plain copy for the victim.
Where the money stopped, and who to contact
AddressStopVictim USDTFreezeContact
Four of the fifteen leads from the sample case, as of its data cut-off. Each address links to the block explorer so you can check it yourself.
Every wallet in the pathEach address and transaction hash, hop by hop, with a link to check it on Etherscan or Tronscan.
Holding vs exchangeWhich wallets still hold the victim’s money, and which are exchange deposit addresses, named by exchange.
Amounts tracedThe victim’s USDT attributed to each wallet and each transfer, with a confidence for every hop.
FIFO and LIFOTraced under both accounting rules, so you can see which rule reaches which wallet.
Tether freeze statusWhether Tether has already frozen a wallet, with the date and the freeze transaction.
Method on the pageHops followed, the smallest branch expanded, the block the data stops at. Every cited number checked against the trace.
Every report covers
EthereumTronUSDT, ERC-20 and TRC-20Exchange deposit labelsTether freeze statusFIFO and LIFO
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What to do with it
Each stop in the report says who can act on it. The report is a lead list, marked “Reported, not proven”. The requests come from you.
BExchange deposit
Go to the exchange
Send a preservation or records request, or ask for an account freeze, through the named exchange’s law enforcement portal. The exchange knows whose account the deposit address belongs to.
CIC3 complaint
Back up the complaint
The victim files with the FBI at ic3.gov first. Attach the Hound report to the complaint or your case file, with the complaint number.
Investigative support, not legal advice. Verify every address on-chain before you act. Freeze and records processes belong to Tether and each exchange, and they change; check theirs before you send.
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How it’s tested
Run blind on 12 real DOJ forfeiture cases. The data was cut off before the first freeze, Tether’s freeze list was hidden, and Hound saw only the victims’ transfers.
Seized wallets named22 / 32DOJ-seized wallets Hound named as top leads
Cases12DOJ forfeiture complaints, all public court records
Top leads named104across the 12 cases, about 9 per case
The limits, in plain words
10Hound missed 10 of the 32 seized wallets. Some sat past the hop limit, some held money from another victim or another coin.
82The other leads were not seized in court. About half are exchange deposit addresses; the rest could not be checked against a court record. A lead is a place to look, not a finding.
↯Bridges are not followed. Money that crosses to another chain ends the trail, and branches below a set amount are not expanded.
≠These were closed cases, picked because DOJ published the seizures. A fresh case can look different.
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Ground rules
The same rules apply to every case, whoever sends it.
Free for victimsVictims never pay for a trace or a report.
No money, no keysHound never asks for payment, private keys or seed phrases, and never takes custody of funds.
No cold contactHound doesn’t contact victims first. Anyone who does, claiming to be Hound, is not us.
Working a case?
Send us the transfers.
Email us about the case. We’ll reply with how to send the victim’s transaction hashes and run the trace with you.